Flow Matching

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Overview

Flow matching learns a velocity field that moves samples from a simple source, often Gaussian noise, toward a target data distribution. Conditional flow matching trains the field on paths between source and data samples, while optimal-transport couplings and rectified paths aim to make those trajectories easier to learn and integrate with an ordinary differential equation solver. Extensions handle discrete data, curved manifolds and symmetries, physical constraints, and applications from image and speech generation to robotics, scientific forecasting, and inverse problems. A central challenge is getting high fidelity and diverse, reliable samples with few solver steps; theory on convergence and stability is advancing, but the best paths, source distributions, and schedules depend on the task.

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  1. Flow matching for Sentinel-2 super-resolution: implementation, application, and implications

    May 1, 2026Dakota Hester, Vitor S. Martins, Lucas B. Ferreira +2Flow MatchingLand Cover Classification

    Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University · North Mississippi Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University

  2. Binomial flows: Denoising and flow matching for discrete ordinal data

    May 1, 2026Yair Shenfeld, Ricardo Baptista, Stefano PeluchettiFlow MatchingFlow-Based Generative Modeling

  3. Free Energy Surface Sampling via Reduced Flow Matching

    May 1, 2026Zichen Liu, Tiejun LiFree Energy CalculationFlow Matching

    Center for Data Science, Peking University · LMAM and School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University · Center for Machine Learning Research, Peking University

  4. StyleShield: Exposing the Fragility of AIGC Detectors through Continuous Controllable Style Transfer

    Apr 30, 2026Guantian ZhengFlow MatchingAI-Generated Text Detection

  5. FlowS: One-Step Motion Prediction via Local Transport Conditioning

    Apr 28, 2026Leandro Di Bella, Adrian Munteanu, Bruno CornelisFlow MatchingTrajectory Generation

    Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. · IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

  6. PhyloSDF: Phylogenetically-Conditioned Neural Generation of 3D Skull Morphology via Residual Flow Matching

    Apr 28, 2026Kaikwan Lau, Gary P. T. ChoiFlow Matching3D Mesh Generation

    Department of Mathematics The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  7. Learning biophysical models of gene regulation with probability flow matching

    Apr 27, 2026Suryanarayana Maddu, Victor Chardès, Michael J. ShelleyFlow MatchingSingle-Cell Perturbation Modeling

    Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA, 10010 · Molecular & Cellular Biology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, USA, 10012

  8. Point-MF: One-step Point Cloud Generation from a Single Image via Mean Flows

    Apr 27, 2026Yuta Baba, Keiji YanaiFlow MatchingOne-Step Generative Modeling

    The University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

  9. FlowPlace: Flow Matching for Chip Placement

    Apr 26, 2026Peng Xie, Ke Xue, Yunqi Shi +6Constrained Generative ModelingFlow Matching

    1State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China · 3Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, China

  10. Adversarial Flow Matching for Imperceptible Attacks on End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Apr 26, 2026Xinyu Zeng, Xiangkun He, Lei Tao +2Flow MatchingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518110, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

  11. MotionHiFlow: Text-to-motion via hierarchical flow matching

    Apr 25, 2026Heng Li, Xiaotong Lin, Ling-An Zeng +3Flow MatchingText-to-Motion Generation

    Sun Yat-sen University · Shandong University · Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, China +1

  12. Null-Space Flow Matching for MIMO Channel Estimation in Latency-Constrained Systems

    Apr 23, 2026Junjie Zhao, Guangming Liang, Dongzhu Liu +1Flow MatchingEfficient Inference

    College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University · School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow · School of Natural and Computing Science, University of Aberdeen

  13. WFM: 3D Wavelet Flow Matching for Ultrafast Multi-Modal MRI Synthesis

    Apr 22, 2026Yalcin Tur, Mihajlo Stojkovic, Ulas BagciFlow MatchingBraTS

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Machine and Hybrid Intelligence Lab, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

  14. On the Role of Strain and Vorticity in Numerical Integration Error for Flow Matching

    Apr 22, 2026Chenxi Tao, Seung-Kyum ChoiFlow MatchingJacobian Regularization

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  15. Tokenised Flow Matching for Hierarchical Simulation Based Inference

    Apr 22, 2026Giovanni Charles, Cosmo Santoni, Seth Flaxman +1Flow MatchingSimulation-Based Inference

    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom · University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  16. Stability-Driven Motion Generation for Object-Guided Human-Human Co-Manipulation

    Apr 22, 2026Jiahao Xu, Xiaohan Yuan, Xingchen Wu +3HOI GenerationFlow Matching

    1Tianjin University · 2National University of Singapore · 3Sichuan University

  17. Semi-Supervised Flow Matching for Mosaiced and Panchromatic Fusion Imaging

    Apr 22, 2026Peiming Luo, Nan Wang, Litong Liu +4Flow MatchingMulti-Source Image Fusion

    Southeast University · Hunan University

  18. Frequency-Forcing: From Scaling-as-Time to Soft Frequency Guidance

    Apr 21, 2026Weitao DuFlow MatchingImage Generation

    DAMO Academy

  19. MedFlowSeg: Flow Matching for Medical Image Segmentation with Frequency-Aware Attention

    Apr 21, 2026Zhi Chen, Runze Hu, Le ZhangFlow MatchingMedical Image Segmentation

    School of Engineering, University of Birmingham · School of Public Health, Peking University

  20. Allo{SR}2^2: Rectifying One-Step Super-Resolution to Stay Real via Allomorphic Generative Flows

    Apr 21, 2026Zihan Wang, Xudong Huang, Junbo Qiao +4Flow MatchingDiffusion Model Distillation

    East China Normal University · Huawei Foundation Model Dept. · Key Laboratory of Advanced Theory and Application in Statistics and Data Science

  21. Extending One-Step Image Generation from Class Labels to Text via Discriminative Text Representation

    Apr 20, 2026Chenxi Zhao, Chen Zhu, Xiaokun Feng +6Flow MatchingRepresentation Learning

    College of Computer Science, Nankai University · AMAP, Alibaba Group

  22. Fisher Decorator: Refining Flow Policy via a Local Transport Map

    Apr 20, 2026Xiaoyuan Cheng, Haoyu Wang, Wenxuan Yuan +4Flow MatchingOffline RL

    University College London · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Imperial College London +3

  23. OFlow: Injecting Object-Aware Temporal Flow Matching for Robust Robotic Manipulation

    Apr 20, 2026Kuanning Wang, Ke Fan, Chenhao Qiu +5VLM RobustnessFlow Matching

    Fudan University Shanghai, China · University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA · KAUST Saudi Arabia

  24. OmniVLA-RL: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Spatial Understanding and Online RL

    Apr 20, 2026Haoxiang Jie, Yaoyuan Yan, Xiangyu Wei +4Flow MatchingPolicy Optimization

    1AI Lab, Country Garden Services · 3VBot · 2Omni AI +1

  25. FlowC2S: Flowing from Current to Succeeding Frames for Fast and Memory-Efficient Video Continuation

    Apr 19, 2026Hovhannes Margaryan, Quentin Bammey, Christian SandorFlow MatchingT2V Generation

    Team ARAI, Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France · LTCI, T´el´ecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

  26. FlowRefiner: Flow Matching-Based Iterative Refinement for 3D Turbulent Flow Simulation

    Apr 18, 2026Yilong Dai, Yiming Sun, Yiheng Chen +3Flow MatchingNeural PDE Solvers

    University of Alabama · University of Pittsburgh

  27. Can We Build Scene Graphs, Not Classify Them? FlowSG: Progressive Image-Conditioned Scene Graph Generation with Flow Matching

    Apr 18, 2026Xin Hu, Ke Qin, Wen Yin +3Scene Graph GenerationFlow Matching

    The Laboratory of Intelligent Collaborative Computing of UESTC · Monash University · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ)

  28. The Amazing Stability of Flow Matching

    Apr 17, 2026Rania Briq, Michael Kamp, Ohad Fried +2Flow MatchingGenerative Modeling

    Forschungszentrum Jülich · TU Dortmund · Lamarr Institute +4

  29. Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for High-Quality Image Generation

    Apr 16, 2026Sucheng Ren, Qihang Yu, Ju He +3Flow MatchingConditional Image Generation

    Johns Hopkins University · ByteDance

  30. RelativeFlow: Taming Medical Image Denoising Learning with Noisy Reference

    Apr 16, 2026Yuxin Liu, Yiqing Dong, Wenxue Yu +4Flow MatchingImage Denoising

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China · Department of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA · School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China +1